I guess this means Nord Stream 2 can continue to look for buyers

And our Swedish leadership is excited to do it again …

Want a quick history of Western meddling in Iran? In 1921, the Brits tapped Reza Khan, a soldier in Iran’s imperial army to engineer a coup against the dynasty that had run Iran since 1789. It took several years, but in 1925 the coup finally succeeded and Khan was made king, or

Suddenly the neocons realize that Trump is not Hitler. The rest of us start to think he might be. Trump obviously wants Iran to believe that he's cruel and crazy enough to kill them all. He needs to antagonize the entire MAGA movement to make that threat credible. 25th?

Trump's threats are not credible unless his base goes against him. This has happened many times before. Defending Trump is counterproductive for any supporter with influence. Personally I think Iran should be left alone. Bomb or not.

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An answer to JD Vance -- First, a credit to the Vice President for publicly discussing the core issue in the dispute, opening himself up to public responses, and engaging the American people in a direct way on a question of such consequence as war. Second, Vance leaves

For Trump's attack on Iran to not blowback, Trump needs Iran to exercise self-restraint (e.g. limit attacks on US bases in the region & no closing the Straits of Hormuz/oil price shock) yet the very reason for the attack is Iran being so unrestrained, they would nuke us.

Never forget the media/Bellingcat pile-on against Hersh when he broke his Biden-Nordstream bombing scoop. All of them mocked Hersh’s sourcing and said he’d aged out and didn’t know journalism any longer.

Sweden has now announced that starting on July 1 its navy will stop, inspect and potentially seize all suspect vessels transiting its exclusive economic zone, and is deploying the Swedish air force to back up this threat. Since the combined maritime economic zones of Sweden and

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